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Summer’s Biggest Blockbusters
Premiering Now:
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Synopsis: Lara Croft, who is carrying on her deceased father s
work as an English archaeologist/antiquities hunter, uncovers an
ancient puzzle that she msut
solve before it’s too late. C en­
tu ries b e fo re ,a m y ste rio u s,
otherworldly object with a god­
like power to alter time was
split in two and the pieces bur­
ied in tombs on opposite ends of
the earth. Jolie must race against
time to find both halves o f the
object and destroy it before a
leader of an evil secret society
get his hands on it.
Dr. Dolittle 2
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May 4 * October 13, 2001
Post Times
Wednesday - Saturday 7 00 pm
Sundays/Hol ¡days 1:00 pm
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Wood Village. Oregon
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Synopsis: The continuing tale
of the doctor who can talk to the
animals - this time, it’s Dolittle versus Darwin when the animals
launch a labor strike to protect their forest from unscrupulous human
developers. Dolittle quickly comes up with a plan: populate the forest
with a species o f animal that the law protects. He finds a perfect
candidate when he comes across Ava, a lone Pacific Western bear
living in the condemned forest. To provide her with a mate, Dolittle
turns to Archie, a wise-cracking, fast-food loving, circus performing
bear. Can Dolittle play matchmaker to these two mismatched bears
before it’s too late?
Genre(s): comedy, adaptation, sequel, remake; Rating: MPAA
PG 13; Runtim e: 100 mins.; D istributor(s): 20th Century Fox
(USA).
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Synopsis: The year is 1914. Milo Thatch is a lowly museum
cartographer and linguistics expert who knows the whereabouts of
Atlantis. He isn’t taken seriously, however, until an eccentric billion­
aire funds an expedition based on Miko’s late grandfather s journal
about the lost city. Milo joins a motley group o f mercenaries, led by
Commander Rourke, on a dangerous trip through the ocean, where
they discover a thriving civilization ruled by the King and his beautiful
warrior daughter, Princess Kida. It’s Atlantis, and it’s been kept alive
by a crystal energy hidden deep within the city, which thrills
Commander Rourke - his evil plan is to steal the crystals. Now it’s
up to Milo and the others to save the city from certain doom.
SWORDFISH
Synopsis: Gabriel Shear has set his sights on a government slush
fund established several years ago by the Drug Enforcement Agency
in a money-laundering scheme, now worth nearly $10 billion. In
order to pull o ff the heist, he needs to find someone who can get into
the bank’s computers quickly enough to access the DEA money
while delet­
ing
all
records o f
the tra n s ­
fer. Shear
is left with
one option
- S tanley
Jobson -
recently re­
leased from
ja il a fte r
s e rv in g
two years
for hacking
into an FBI
p ro g ra m
that performed unethical surveillance on regular Americans. Jobson
is reluctant to do the job even after Shear offers him $10 million
because the terms o f his parole prevent him from coming within 50
yards o f a computer. So Shear comes up with an offer that he cannot
refuse - a chance to be reunited
with his daughter Holly. Jobson’s •
LANCE CROUTHER WANDA SYRER and CHRIS RDCR
Too cool for words
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boozy ex-wife took Holly and m ar­
ried an X-rated film director during
his hiatus from society, leaving
Jobson to live alone in a trailer.
With everything to gain, Jobson
accepts the deal and enters Shear’s
world where people are obviously
not what they seem.
A.I.
Synopsis: Sometime in the dis­
tant future, after the polar icecaps
have melted, major flooding has
devastated most major cities and
the world is now run by robots with
highly sophisticated artificial intelli­
gence. In the midst of it all stands one
boy and a robotic teddy bear who
long for something more...
Genre(s): sci-fi, drama; Rating:
MPAA; Runtim e: 73 m ins.;
Distributor(s): Warner Bros (USA).
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Cats and Dogs
Synopsis: The age-old turf war
between cats and dogs gets more
intense when felines discover that
humans may be on the brink of
developing a vaccine for dog aller­
gies. Dogs, naturally, are all for it,
but cats make it their mission to
prevent the breakthrough.
Genre(s): anim ation, anim al,
liv e -a c tio n ; R atin g: MPAA;
D istr ib u to r (s): W arner Bros
(USA); Theatrical Release: July
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Kiss of the Dragon
Synopsis: A Chinese intelligence
officer goes to Paris on assignment
and becomes embroiled in a deadly
conspiracy.
G enre(s):
m artial
arts;
Distributor(s): Miramax; Theatri­
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